On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 16, 2016 12:22 AM, "Remi Collet" <r...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > Le 15/03/2016 17:11, Scott Arciszewski a écrit :
> > > Hi PHP team,
> > >
> > > I've opened the vote on
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral which aims to
> > > deprecate ext/mcrypt in PHP 7.1 then remove it in 7.1+1 (i.e. make
> > > it only installable via PECL).
> > >
> > > In the interim, I'll be developing a (MIT licensed)
> > > decryption-only userland implementation of the mcrypt ciphers so
> > > people can migrate their code towards something better.
> > >
> > > This vote is opened on March 15th, 2016 and will close March 22th
> > > at 17:00 UTC.
> > >
> >
> > +1 from me.
> >
> >
> > Probably you miss keeping mcrypt extension means:
> >
> >         "PHP becomes upstream for libmcrypt"
> >
> > So, to all people who wote "no",
> > please make clear you want to maintain this library.
>
> +1 here but I wonder why it would be different now than with 7.0 except
> introducing a BC in a minor release (7.2)?
>
> I would still vote +1 while it should be removed with 8.0.
>
> Cheers
> Pierre
>

​It won't be "removed" wholesale, it will be punted to PECL like what
happened to APC with 5.5.

Scott Arciszewski
Chief Development Officer
Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com/>​

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